24-11-2011, 04:29
(This post was last modified: 24-11-2011, 07:27 by CRAZY-HORSE.)
there's actually a hell of a lot of good albums in this list SteveO...but as you pointed out they are all subjective to opinion of those making them, as is everything to do with music reviews etc...but they are always interesting to read...
i'll get through this list bit by bit with my thoughts...
firstly Midnight Oil's "diesel and dust" was simply huge back in the day, wasnt a time over a period of 18-24 months after its release that there wasnt a song from it on the radio or a video on MTV...! Midnight Oil were are highly politically charged group fronted by Peter Garrett...a well known outspoken leftist minded thinking individual...he became involved in the NDP, Nuclear Disarmament Party in the early 1980s and the songs of that period reflrected his views towards Nuclear Power and US Warships docking in our ports with Nuclear capabilities... "diesel and dust",however, focuses on the rights of indigenous Aboriginals and their rights for getting sole rights to their land(surprisingly enough the land they wanted to reclaim always seemed to be that which mining companies were already mining gold,diamonds,silver,nickel,iron ore,opals etc etc....
whether you agree with Garrett's views or not he has to be admired for his belief in what he was doing/saying...
in a way, this is a very "australian" themed album and therefore is justifiably #1 on the list....personally, i havent got it out and played it for some years now as i have it on cassette(remember them?) but from memory it was a very good album
BTW looking through the top 100 albums i believe i only have 28 of them, not sure of 28% of an all time list is good or not?
i'll get through this list bit by bit with my thoughts...
firstly Midnight Oil's "diesel and dust" was simply huge back in the day, wasnt a time over a period of 18-24 months after its release that there wasnt a song from it on the radio or a video on MTV...! Midnight Oil were are highly politically charged group fronted by Peter Garrett...a well known outspoken leftist minded thinking individual...he became involved in the NDP, Nuclear Disarmament Party in the early 1980s and the songs of that period reflrected his views towards Nuclear Power and US Warships docking in our ports with Nuclear capabilities... "diesel and dust",however, focuses on the rights of indigenous Aboriginals and their rights for getting sole rights to their land(surprisingly enough the land they wanted to reclaim always seemed to be that which mining companies were already mining gold,diamonds,silver,nickel,iron ore,opals etc etc....
whether you agree with Garrett's views or not he has to be admired for his belief in what he was doing/saying...
in a way, this is a very "australian" themed album and therefore is justifiably #1 on the list....personally, i havent got it out and played it for some years now as i have it on cassette(remember them?) but from memory it was a very good album
BTW looking through the top 100 albums i believe i only have 28 of them, not sure of 28% of an all time list is good or not?
"BTO....Bachman,Turner,Overweight
They were big in the 70s....for five minutes,on a Saturday,after lunch..." - Me 2014.
They were big in the 70s....for five minutes,on a Saturday,after lunch..." - Me 2014.